Enchantment Age - civil war edition

>>416222
Ok...

I really, really like your concept. Or at least what I think it is.

But your writing is rather hard to parse.

Take some deep breaths. Slow down a bit. There are simpler ways to inform us that this is Fantasy Elf Japan at the end of the isolation period.

Like telling us that this is Fantasy Elf Japan and linking us to a wiki if we're more curious about the specific period. Trying to smash together the history of Japan into three blocks of text along with, with fantasy elves thrown in, is a foolhardy task.

>>416222
>You are a master mage, head of a small magic university with a few students.

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>>416514
>master mage
As you wake up from your bed the air feels too calm. Time to start the morning classes with the few student you have under you. More information about natural elements could be taught to finish what you were teaching yesterday or move on to more advance topics. You could just make your students do more practicing with elements again like lass time but that could backfire. What should you do when you arrive at the university?

>>416662
As with all magical universities, checking that everyone still has all their limbs and that nowhere in the building has burnt down is always a good first task for the day.

>>416674
>checking student health
All your 5 students seem to be in shape except for that one girl in the back who has a cold but even than if the cold didn't grow to a fever she shouldn't die. The class jester, Taiski, still had her left hand burnt by literally playing with fire during an exercise. Pretty foolish to try to juggle fireballs when you can barely keep the element from exploding in her own face. Where even the smart one, Sosenyu, always thinking herself so smart once end up embarrassed when trying to show the rest of the class that she could turn the floor into a ice skating ring. You remembered you had to thaw out everybody's feet in the room with a tiny flame.

>>416662
I think we should combine both of them. The more advanced topic should be determining the elemental affinity of each of our students. A natural progression.

>>416698
Nevermind, looks like they know. :P

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>>416718
>>416710
Well, throwing around fireballs and accidentally freezing your own feet is not considered advance magical arts in Sengoku. Even an army of magically talented conscripts could be taught how to shoot formation lighting.
>elemental affinity
Some magical experts may say "one is more in tune with a certain element" is something most regard with laughter. Anybody with magical talents could be taught any elements but they may have preferences yet rarely are there any cases of mages physically unable to use certain elements.

>>416759
Fair. Does make the whole point of a generates/overcomes system absolutely pointless if everyone can use every element equally though.

"Take this, fireball!"
"Waterball."
"Ok, Earthball."
"Woodball."
"Rrrggh, Metalball."
"Fireball."
"Now you're just copying me!"

>>416799
About 1/10 of everybody can use magic but it's just about as advance for many of those people as throwing around elements without any idea for what they are actually doing. In Sengoku the magically talented became a rather big problem in early society as mages often end up as warlords or raiders. Those wielding magic were first often rounded up to be killed or worshiped before the time of the the first God-Empress. After the unification of Sengoku, mage schools were used to store and train any magical talented then hopefully graduate to become civil servants or join the military. Those mages coming from nobility would almost always try to join the military of the tribe they came from. The Senchotai is also filled with mages but most for the usage of hunting down other mages or acting as spies.

>>416799
OP's saying that the general opinion is that no-one is born with an affinity. That doesn't mean that they can't choose to specialise in using one element, or instead choose a broader study of multiple elements.

Let's teach our first course on water magic. Their first test will be to use to use only their magic to extract the water from a pile of wet sand into a small ceramic sake cup. An easy task to start the morning, so they'll also be timed with sand hourglasses set to ten minutes. They will have to fill the cup with water before the hourglass runs out.

Meanwhile, we shall be doing our own quick task to stay in shape. That task shall be to extract the water from a bottle of weak sake, then divide the water into cubes while levitating it, freeze it and put the ice cubes back into the now stronger sake.

>>416909
You wouldn't call yourself an alcoholic but a person of refine taste for hard drink... sure let's go with that. This is especially true for a teacher that shouldn't be drink during class but it's not like the students could do anything about it.
Everybody pretty much extracted the water from the sand in no time with Sosenyu being the first. Well, almost everybody... It seems that Taiski accidentally evaporate the water from the sand instead of extracting it. The stronger sake couldn't fool you from seeing that in fact not only was the cup for Taiski not filled but it was totally dry. On one hand that was actually a rather advance move for a novice and normally you would congratulate her but she still failed to complete the task.

>>416978
Time for some one-to-one teaching. Ask her what she did, then we can compare it with the proper method and tell her where she went wrong.

>>417025
>Can you tell me what you did wrong?
Saying as you try to figure out what had happen.
>I... turned that water into mist. Just like how I planned to all along, Senja.
Taiski holding a grin while saying these obvious lies.
>Can you turn it back to water than?
Asking with the only response being a shrug.
The proper way to extract the water, where you channel the chi into your arm as you do a single motion of pretending to lift with an open hand. The element in question would simply be lifted up depending on whatever the mage is thinking but Taiski did more than that. When recreating the same movements Taiski had shown to add her fingers to move inward. You speculate that along with the extra movement and what might have been concentrating chi within a single spot on the hand resulted in not only the water being pulled out of the sand but ripped apart by sheer force to such tiny matter as to become mist.
>You see Taiski...
Explaining the error with as much details as possible until Taiski complete the task without any problem. After all was said and done Sosenyu still had a smug face when looking at Taiski, likely thinking about how great she looked compared to Taiski. Now it was time to think up of a way to spend the rest of the class day.

>>417177
Now that we've corrected Taiski's technique, we congratulate her on managing to do some higher-level magic and suggest that we study it later as part of a class lesson.

After that, let's check to see whether we have any mail.

Then let's do a class on wood magic. How about for an easy task, trying to make a flower open and close at the student's will? Then for a harder task, they should try powering a vine to grow a certain distance up a wooden frame in a time limit. Bonus points for being able to guide the vine's direction.

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>>417259
>Great job on learning a pretty advance move on your own Taiski. Now class, read the Treaties of Growth from where we left off yesterday while I check the mail.
When walking to the mail room of the school you realized the air was building up with tension from something you can't put your finger on. There was an important looking scroll that arrived with a government seal on it. The message starts off with...
>From the Ministry of Interior
>We are here to remind you that any and all government actions from the Regency must be met with full cooperation and harmony from any lawful peoples.
It goes on to talk about unity and obedience with other formal fancy speech thrown in to keep reminding the reader that they must act like a loyal subject no matter the circumstance. People "of note" were given these scroll whenever the Regency did something that might upset the population. You put back the scroll after reading it and went back to your class.
The day when by without anything exciting happening as the students practiced controlling planets to differing degree. When the exercise of controlling the vines to climb up a pole came it turned into a competition.
>Look at me!
Taiski manged to force the vines to climb at a pretty good speed but it was slowed down by the fact the vines were spiraling up the pole instead of going straight up.
>Not so fast!
Sosenyu said after reaching the top of the pole. It appears that once again that she will get the extra points.
It is passed mid-day and everybody is eating lunch outside of the classroom. Some of the students ordered food to be brought from outside the school while some had rice boxes from their room. As you eat your grilled salted fish, you wonder why you got the message and what to do for finishing off the class after the lunch brake is over.

That was a pretty fun and peaceful short quest. Thanks for running it, OP; I enjoyed myself.

>>425061
My first time being DM really online or offline, but next time I'll have the players tell the story rather than myself. I would like for the anons to choose the direction of the story and I would just expand upon it.